Oxygen and carbon stable isotopes of modern land snail shells as environmental indicators from a low-latitude oceanic island

Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta

Volumn 73, Issue 14, 2009, Pages 4077-4099

  Yanes, Yurena ^a   Romanek, Christopher S ^a   Delgado, Antonio ^b   Brant, Heather A ^a   Noakes, John E ^c   Alonso, María R ^d   Ibáñez, Miguel ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b CSIC   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSIDAD DE LA LAGUNA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON ISOTOPE; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL INDICATOR; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; SHELL; SNAIL; STABLE ISOTOPE;

ATLANTIC ISLANDS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; CANARY ISLANDS; EURASIA; EUROPE; MACARONESIA; SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE [(PRV) CANARY ISLANDS]; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN; TENERIFE;

GASTROPODA; STYLOMMATOPHORA;

EID: 66349134553     PISSN: 00167037     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gca.2009.04.021     Document Type: Article

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